In this episode of Autistic Culture 101, Dr. Angela Kingdon continues our journey through the 10 Pillars of Autistic Culture as we move onto Pillar 3 — Norm Challenging.
This remastered episode explores the life and legacy of Emily Dickinson through an autistic lens, revealing how her truth-telling, gender defiance, sensory preferences, and poetic rebellion made her a quintessential norm challenger—and an early voice of neurodivergent power.
🎧 What You’ll Learn
- Why Emily Dickinson’s life was an act of radical autistic norm defiance.
- How literal thinking, moral clarity, and pattern recognition challenged the social structures around her.
- The connection between rejection sensitivity and creative brilliance.
- How “masking” created safety—but didn’t stop her from telling the truth.
- What we can reclaim from being called “too intense” or “too much.”
Related Episodes:
Emily Dickinson (Ep 3)
Courtney Love (Referenced, Ep 89)
Being an Expat (Ep 105)
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